I N July 1937 I met Dr. L. D. Livingstone, who was returning as medical officer to Pangnirtung, on board the Nascopie, and it was he who first told me of the great fulmar colony at Cape Searle (67 ” 13N., 62 ” 30W.), on the Davis Strait coast of Baffin Island. That summer I joined Commander Donald M...
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| Summary: | I N July 1937 I met Dr. L. D. Livingstone, who was returning as medical officer to Pangnirtung, on board the Nascopie, and it was he who first told me of the great fulmar colony at Cape Searle (67 ” 13N., 62 ” 30W.), on the Davis Strait coast of Baffin Island. That summer I joined Commander Donald MacMillan’s expedition a t Hebron, and paid a visit to Frobisher Bay in the Gloucester schooner Gertrude Thebmd. Though we cruised the open waters of Davis Strait north to about 66 degrees, we had no contact with the coast and learnt nothing further about fulmar nesting sites. There appear to be four colonies known at the present time in eastern North America, all of great size. There is one at Cape Searle; another, also seen by Dr. Livingstonel about 1 June 1927, on the 1,500-foot cliffs at the mouth of Coutts Inlet, farther north on the ast coast of Baffin Island; one found by Peter Freuchen in northwest Baffin Island in 1924, between Elwin Inlet and Baillarge Bay on the eastern shore of Admiralty Inlet, where it opens out into Lancaster Sound (HZrring, 1937, p. 43); and finally the “big breeding colony” discovered by 0. Sverdrup at Cape Vera, Archer Peninsula, Devon Island on |
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